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THE PATRIOT.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AI
GREENSBORO, N. C.
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Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1879.
Ri|M> fruit-. <>ii Death.
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■ D here in Ihe autumn,
•«l thy theavee,
. - tu gather
II and the leaven.
.:. so clojfcly
nay breast,
• kfl t!.. tender iiiu-.ling
I" i or ,11 IIMI?
BO pla.Tm.te
6M !hte;
towafa him -
vl i«
' angel wait,
k SVSS enfolding
>-d heavenly K»te,
on* who bfckonetb,
art, rouidet tbon bm see
gmtMBnfoUaBg
DM waiting tlieo.
I - tlie twilight,
'■'•:: ttonek behind,
■ nts |>-»t thtm iu.tL.DK
Ike ii 6 "Inter mud.
■ ' aby rautoa aud wfttchoth,
rath* night grows dim
-u empty cmdlo
..ng heart (or him.
New Series No.$95.
MY AUNT'S WILL.
np our miiulB -my sis-that
we would accept
' i tri mda uud join
I Noll Litd lull up-i.tairs
■ put tin- finishing tonehee to her toilet,
**iUa - tlj awaited bar.
i i rwerd tbere iaaetaab
"'. ovi rbi ad. I fly up, four
• •-, to Bod Nell lying on tho
th ihe HI os of a wardrobe,
h she baa somehow managed to, uii
■■'■ The wardrobe, ,8,u
I '■■ of universal sma^h that it is
i elear away the wrick aurl
Mms. She opens her
■ 1 lay ber upon her bod,and
Chat ia it* Has tho world
I -' | l] . 'hut what have
- a ma back to her.
If Dpi n bar right el-
• ■. Tba door atnek,
a lurry, and triad to jerk
be wl ole thing seemed
til waa BO frightened
■ led, and, I : a] pose, fainted.
i ". though, end there's
. rtui tatting.'
, iamy only reply.
>"■• Mi '• Mly tail ,i again;
■• drees in soiled and torn
" ol rostdi ition.
tti r ,'cr yonr di u : i I .t.torn
' I'Oat r* tO be bleki 11,' 1 eliy,
•; but \ : !. iki - I er head in
w together again*, out
ye, rni illy. "If
te and thoughtJ
. .ires,, Cyril It was
- i, an I c it ab-
I i time an 1 pains;
retty, ami beeom-ihed
:t precisely
, yon see; aud—
ttobca sight of
' Nell; and just
Is, and we realise
the picnic is over.
• • Nell,
horiz in.
• . ihon !b, f'. the
■ -i i in I:
: I !te.' for
■.-•:■■
1 I while Sell is
lireotioool
:.U"r of MI! of ii-. ■]. ,. .\rr.\
i whi D y eye falls :■■ ■ pan.
: a hicb some carefol hand
. ").u*i, lim M.
leadl' 1 exclaim; aud
Jate of the paficr,
'■ '< >
•!i a ,-t ,rt.
i rii -. 'An ! my let-
■ Blatchford, who lives
er.'
•.iti . i.o longer,
baal lv opeu.
■
might cxptct, coming
at lar-t. 'Sjy what
iii uulacky day.1
j if yonr lettercon-anppoae
it does,' I
atreteh aw.iy be-eyears
that it will
Utld np his prac
•M that it will take
; m I all tba
t! .• girl, of wle m X.-ll
; itiently in the
I Si »• England hills!
■my from sach thouulits
i listen to what Nell
would ha»e been nearer the right thing.'
Of Manet it u all left to eomeOicams,
to whom it will be bnt a drop in the
bnokot,' says Halt, bitterly. That', the
way things always go in this world
while we— Oh, Oyril, why don't yon
say something* Im't it too bad, and
(M ' this an unlucky day!'
'I suppose it is," I Bay, moodily. 'I
confess I cinnot see how we are to find
any good in this.'
We spend onr evening gloomily
enough, in spite of our efforts to ebeer
op and forget I read a little to Nell
from day old Etta, and we Iry a game
of oribbage, of which Nell soon tires.—
At nine o'clock we bid each other good-night
in sheer despair.
We are a little more cheerful over the
breakfast table. Things cannot look
quito so bad by the morning's light as
they did in the evening's shadows.
Bridget is bringing in the hot cakes
iu installment*, and as she sets the plate
containing the third batch upon the ta-ble,
wo notice that she is looking at us
curiously. Evidently she won Id fain
speak, but respeot restrains her tongue.
•What is it, Bridget?' Nell asks,
kindly.
Then the Irish tongue breaks bounds.
•Sure, miss,' she cries, 'an' haven't yez
heard ? An' wasn't it a blissid thing in-tirely
tbat }e tore yer drees an' cnJn't
go to this picnic—bad OFSS to it and it's
likel The milkman was just after tellin'
me all about it. Ivery wan o' thiml—
niver a wan saved—the purty dearsI—
Och, wirra, wirral'
Bridget is on the point of breaking
into a genuine Irish howl, but Nell's
words, quick and eager, nip it in the
bud: 'What do jon mean, Bridget?—
what havo you heard?'
Bridget's tale is not easy to under-stand,
diversified as it is by comments,
nnd embellished with interjections.—
By dint of painful and skillful question-ings,
however, we elicit the truth at
laM. That irnth concerns the picnic to
whioh but lor Nell's accident we should
have gone. This picnic was gotten up
by a small party of friends from oar own
town. Wo were to have gone by rail to
a spot live milee distant, there pick np
Dr. Oaston, and transfer ourselves to a
huge wagon which was to meet us. This
part of the programme seems to have
been carried out, in spite of-Nell'a and
my defection. The excursion came to
an abrupt cnnolusiou, however; for,
barely half a mile from the station, the
horses took fright, ran violently down a
steep hill, ami npset the wagon at the
bottom. Two of the occupants were
killed cntright, so Bridget reporta, but
who they were she canuot say. Of the
rest not one escaped without injuries
more or less severe.
I looked at Nell. Sho was white to the
lips, and her eyes looked big and wild.
'Another incident of your 'unlucky
day' which turus out the best of good
Inck,' I say, not having as yet taken in
the full sense of the catastrophe. 'Aren't
yon rather glad than otherwise now that
yon pnlle 1 down the wardrobe?'
'Cyril!' cries Nell, in a shrill voice,
which I hardly recognize as hers. 'How
can I bo glad ? Two were killed out-right,
and Miles Giston was there.'
Nell MMDI frozen to a Btatue. She
r.'arcely moves, tcarocly speaks. Only
her dry lips whisper: 'You will go and
Sod out, will you not, Cyril dear?'
O; course Iwill go; but just asl reach
the door I meet Dr. Oaston himself
rushing down the street from the station.
'You here? Thnnk God!' he cries.—
'B it Nell—is she hurt?' Is she'— He
paaaea, unable to articulate the last
word, hut I hasten to put him out of
his misery.
'Nell is here, all right. We didn't go
to the picnio. An accident prevented.
Bnt y m?'
'I uid uot go either, says Dr. Gaston.
'I won sailed out un< xpeotexily for a pro-
»»1 visit. It was a critical case,
and I ooold not loavo until too late for
the tram. I only hoard of the accident
the.- morning, ana came down at once."
It is good to see the rosy glow which
Ohaaea away Nell's pallor as I usher Dr.
Oaston into the dining-room. It ia good
to see the light of lovo anil gratitule
which shines from his o es as he sees
her. I leave them alone as I catch up
my hat and make my ucnal frantio rush
for the train, whioh again as usual I
barely succeed in catching.
Somehow I cannot work to-day. My
nerves are unstrung, my brain hangs
fire. 1 noughts of the accident, wonder
as to the real state of the case, fear as to
whioh of our friends may have suffered,
crowd my mind. A remembrance of
Anut Jaue's cruel will intrudes now and
then, bnt I pu'. it away. 'No use crying
over spilled milk,' no UBB in brooding
OH • what cannot be helped. Let the
innu, whoever he may be, ei>j >y Aunt
Jane's fortune. For ns, for all fonr of
us, it ia only a few years more of work-iugand
waiting, and then— Well,what
then? Success and happiness? Failure
and separation? Or a quiet grave in
A (.eorgla Marvel.
A lady of the seventh diatricltf Worth
conn'y has become insane on the sub-ject
of religion. Her dementation was
Brat noticed about a m-nth ago, soon
after the close of a protraoted meeting
at L'oion Baptist ehnrob, near her home.
mind. 'Got lid of jon?' I say. 'Who
has been putting notions into y«nr
head, ohild? What ahonld I do with-out
my little housekeeper?'
•That is juat what I have been think-ing,'
says Nell, ahyly. 'Just what I told
.Miles when he wanted—
'Well, what did Miles wanl?' I ask, | Sue atterded the different eervicw very
as Nell stops. '■ regularly, and seemed deeply impressed
•He wants," said Nell, hanging her aud troublod fox, their first oommenee-bead
low and speaking in a voice which j meet A short while before the meeting
ae<ma half stifled by her blusbee—'he closed she joined the churoh. Going
wants me to marry him in the fall.' j back home, her incoherent, maddened
'Marry him!" I ehout, in my first > and rambling conduct was noticed by
amaiement, 'M .rry him on his pr. sent' ber husband anl children, and they bj-mcome?
Do you meditate a diet of lo- j cime terribly excited aud wrought up
cnstB and wild bonej? Y..u will find j abtut it. She went raving about the
even those beyond your reach iu win- ■ honse ami yard with a bucket of water,
•WeTtW r-.^i • . u u r.i baptiaing everything iu ber pathway.—
•LDioonn'!t bee aann™gry „ bhuut,—'"it, was' Tto MViTles 8Le ^^heI hn"»nd «*» «* «•
O-un urd.r.. .It «~-k.. r ; Ml
riiurwrek*. fs ; ..Itiuiii.u j- ra'
U -..-in aaiaaet,
D—Msiatoi tm d-w.ieiu.il -
THE STATE Of KKANh I.I V
A Di.honest Man Tricked.
■aw ihe Onirder.u.n ef ataMi MtM»d ' k0"**' Friedberg, a pawnbroker of
Hants*- One Mere Slater. I some notoriety in Chicago, has been
It ia well known that after the Revo- ■ awindled into buying a brick which he
lntion most of the thirteen original' w" deceive:! into thinking was gold.
Statea claimed jnrisdiotion among them- ' He was visited at night by three men,
'elves over the territory stretching in. I who represented themselves as agents for
definitely lo the westward. The aepa- pickpockets, and proposed to sell him a
i»t» jurisdiction of each. State wag ill' '"Re amount of gold at a TfryJow price,
denned, snd to avoid all trouble, to ; Tu«T "id the gold was the produotof
give the general government what j w»lon «*&, chains, ornaments and
seemed iu due, and to assist in throw-! "the* articles which were stolen, and
mg off the debt incurred by the war of
independence, tho coiisrefB ol the con-federation
ref|ne*»exl the various States
whi.h they were afraid to dispose of
the atdinai y manner. A most magnifi-cent
story of the way in which these
ernmont. The matter was not definitely
<«ltl*d until after the adoption of the
«nstitution; but the State of North
that Aunt Jane left her money. It was
his father that she jilted wheu they wero
both young. And so—you don't mind,
OyriU'
Mind? Why should / mini:? It was
not the money that I cared about. My
income will atill be enough for two, |
and Neil will be happy, and—
'And, do yon know, Cyril," Nell goes
on, 'Miles says that he never would
have married me to live on my money.
Only for Aunt Jane'e will wo ahould
have had to wait still ; and weren't you
right? and wasn't yesterday the dearest,
blesaedest iiay of the whole year, in-stead
of the unlucky one that I, like a
little goose, colled it? And so, if yon
can find a nice motherly old housekeep-er
to take care of you until you can
put some sweet girl, such as you de-serve,
in my place—
I laugh out. I cannot help it.
'Never you mind, Miss Nell,' I say.—
'I will make shift to take care of myself.
Go your way, aud never worry your lit-tle
head abi.u' your stupid olu brother.'
ii I if H:;'- never oared
least we wire her
We ci.ul.l hardly
I.I mlxr u-i in
! ut tli^ least she
■ I ' the eredit oi the
>nt one. Then
the comae of
had It avo it
.
she is saying, when
If ne never lowed
ii e sho new r J syme lonely churchyard before the race
is run and the goal reached? Bah I no
use in sitting in my office thinking such
dr.veling thoughts as these. Better to
go home, set my mind at ease, and take
the rest which my nerves demand. To-morrow
I shall come back all the fresher
to my daily task.
Nell meets me at the door of our house.
<)u ber fuce is a glow, in her eyee a ten-der
light such as I have never aeen there
before. She kisses me softly, then fol-lows
me into the house, and hovere
about me daintily with wistful looks
and broken, half-whispered words.
■Cyril,' she says at last, and then
stops.
'What is it, little sister?" I ask, for the
shy radiance of her face moves me some-how
to fresh tenderness.
'Cyril,' sho begins again, 'do yon want
to get rid of meJ'
I stop short, and look at her in amaze-ment,
feeling half guilty in my own
' ■ thavi said,
Dg while
. consulting
'-' • 'I ai uy J.i^s not men-i
-'he did not know
' "r anut, Miss
ber money to the
jilted when she
- >he flattered her
a !■ ii-ii oi "poetic justice,'
' I think the plain prosaic
. it to her relations
A Foreigner's Opinion of l"j.
Count Turenue, who spent two years
in this country, has recently published
in Paris a double-volume book giving
his impressions, in which be is appre-ciative
of onr women, whose personal
charms he considers superior to those of
any European nation, while their man-ners
are BO elegant and refined thatth-y
alone prevent onr harsh and angular
men from relapsing into bsrbarism. The
comte thinks that a great many other
wise sensible snd refined people display
a ratber ludicrous anxiety to trace their
origin back to ancient and illustrious
booses; but, indeed, he couceivea that
the mania for titles is common to all
classes of American society. The num-ber
of judges, generals, governors and
colonels to whom he was introduced was
aimply amazing. Society, however, in
the sense of those rapport; those sym-pathetic
commimic it ions that one has
with others, doeB not, iu the curate's
view cf the case, exist in this country,
except in very limited proportion*—
There is a small and secluded circle of
eminent minds, enlightened and culti-vated
in art and letters, but thes-j rnly
associate with themselves and admit
none from the outside. Besides ihese,
so far as he saw, so-called society is
confined to the nouvcauz Heknt whom
the comte characterizes acutely, saying
that 'America is full of men who have
succeeded marvelously and who are
themselves a failure; whose residences
are splendid, but whose souls are vul-gar,
who have pictures and cannot ap-preciate
them, books and do not read
them, clothes and bail fashions, clients
(cli*nl4» in the Roman sense! but no
society; flatterers, but no friends. They
have acquired fortuue by great i flort,
but they do not know how to enjoy it."
Hawk eye's Replies.
'Otrald'—You grievo that your pas-sions
are so strong do you? All right,
mix in a little of yonr morals, which are
weak euongb to thin them down.
•Little ButUrcvp' writes: 'Ho.-v con
I mend a crystal goblet tbat has got a
hole punched through its side?' Yon
can't repair it permanently, but if you
stick your thumb in the hole when you
are using the goblet, it wdl answer for
all practical purposes.
'Mary Ann' says she is 'a weary,' and
complains that 'woman's work goes on
forever.' So it does, and we are glad
of it. Bat that doesn't affect you. Bless
your sonl, yon don't go on forever: yon
don't have all tho work to do, not even
while you live. Man's work goes on
forever, too, we hope, bnt that doesn't
fret us a partiole. We aren't going to
stay hore and do it all. Bless you, no,
we aren't going to do oar own any
longer than we have to. Brace up,
Mary Ann, and don't you fret about the
work tbat'goes on forev-T.' You're not
of ber children, and while doing this
sang the mtiat beautiful songs—songs
that she had heard but onoe or tsrioe.
Although an unlettered woman (her
husband will swear this), she reads any
chopter in the Bible readily, pronounc-ing
cornctly and distinctly, paying at-tention
to punctuation points, etc. She
preaches nearly all the while, and, our
informant says, nses the choicest words
and displays great wisdom and knowl-edge
in tho handling of different sub-jects.
Although not a Mason, she knows
all the mysteries of that mysterious craft
by heart. Dtzeus of MasonB have gone
to see her, aud they all camo away
dumbfounded. Her husband has come-to
the conclusion that she is a witch.
She has attempted acts of violence, but
as yet has done no harm. He, with
outside assistance, at one time tried to
incarcerate her in one of the rooms ol
the house, but the doors became un-manageable
nnd wouldn't stay looked.
Sho hasn't slept in eighteen days and
nights, and during that time has taken
but few morsels of food. This is one of
the strangest eases wo have ever heard
of. Hundreds oro flocking lo see the
frenzied woman.
Proving American Machinery.
The late Thomas Blanchard's inven-tion
of a maohine for turning gunetoeks
was heartily ridicnled in the British
parliament when some members moved
a resolution for purchasing a number of
them, on the ground that Americans
were surpassing the English in gun
manufacture. Oue very incredulous
member made so much opposition, de-claring
that the very idea of taming a
gunstook was absurd, that the resolu-tion
was withdrawn and a committoe
appointed to como to this conntry aud
look into tho matter. They reported the
facts to b" as first stated, whereupon
the incredulous member declared that
the Americans might have got np
something to work their soft woods, but
it would never stand tho test of hard
wood. This gentleenan was finally sent
over to decide njmn the merits of the
iuaoliino. Selecting three rongh stocks
of tho hardest, toujhest timber he could
find, ho went to the Springfield armory
incognito, brought h s stocks to the
stocking-room, and inquired of tho over-seer
if ho would grant him the favor of
turning them. Without making tho least
alteration of the machine the overseer
ran the stocks through in a few minutes,
and then went ou with his work as
though nothing nuuanal had happened.
The Snglishmau examined the stocks,
and (ouud they were all turned the bet-ter
for being of hard wood. After musing
a while he frankly confessed who he was,
why hn came, and his thorough convio
tiou cf the utility of the machine. Be-fore
he left the city he gave an order in
behalf of tho British government foi
this aud tho ocximpanying machines,
some six or eight, which amounted t<
940,000. The machines were built at
Ohicopeo, shipped to England, an.
have been in nse there from that day to
th'3. _
Mining Gold In Georgia.
Havina got a tremendous 'head' of
water at their disposal by the comple-tion
of the ditch, stamp mills were built
far below in the valleys, at points suita-ble
to the best diggings, and they were
ready to begin operations upon the new
system. The cutting having been open-ed
at the brow of the hill, a reservoir is
constructed, in which the water from
the ditch :s allowed to acoutnulate to
the amount of thousands of gallon.,
whence a side ditch, controlled by flood -
gates, leads tit the upper edge of the
cutting. From the mine downward a
chancel is arranged, as precipitous as
possible, leading directly to the stamp-mill,
where a room is cpen to its en-trance,
if now a torrent should snd-d'-
uly be poured into the cutting,
away up tuero on tne edge of the
rronntain, which seems almost to over
to cede their claims to the general gov- K°ods were stolen followed, and when
the pawnbroker's eyes were nearly start-ing
from bis head they draw forth from
newspaper -wrappings, a large bright
Carolina attempted to cede, in compli-| ye"ow briek- Some little dickering en-acci
with the request of congress, its j ,ued M ,0 ,ue Price- uDl l,'e visitors
western lands, which now form the i offereu Bncb easy terms that Friedberg
State of Tennessee; and it was this at- JamP*d ■* tho bargain. He took the
tempt at cession whioh brought about b,iok "cd Mamiu«*1 » »» over, until he
the complications that shortly afterward
The Only Child.
If there are some things to the advan-tage
of the only child, there are others
equally to her uitad vantage. If she oan
monopoliz-- all the love of her relatives,
all their solicitude, and finally fall beir
to all tbeir boatd; yet she loses the
companionship of sisters and brothers,
the pleasure of sharing with them the
interchange of eonfldenc- «, the loLg
talks over the first ball or the first pro-posal,
consultations about Christmas
present*, little quarrels and great recon-ciliations.
If she has no elder sister to
tyrannize over her, she has no yonnger
one to send on her errands, to ail mire
and worship her. Who, in faot, ia there
ITEMS OF 6EXEBAL IMI HIM.
resulted in the brief existence of the
State of Franklin. North Carolina
ceded, but congress, vacillating and
vigorless, hesitated abont accepting the
cession. Having made the cession,
North Carolina gave up all interest in
lier border settiements, and congress
refused to accept tho charge which
North Carolina had thrown off. The
consequences were seriona for tho for-tunes
and happiuesa of the Tennessee
settlers. Their borders were over-run
with criminals and fogitives from jus-tice,
such as alwaya infest a pioneer
community, and yet the action of the
mother State left them without courts
'o assert ju.tioe and inflict punishment.
They had a* all times to be on their
cuard against marauding bands of In-dians,
and yet they were without a
regularly constituted militia for their
defense. They were, in fact, cast-ofls,
and did what one would naturally ex-pect
them to do un.lcr the circum-stances.
Tae three northeastern o iuu-lies
of the territory—Washington,
(Jteene and Sullivan—lying iu the
northern part of what is now Eastern
renncssie, then the only well-settled
portion of the State, met in convention
»t Joneaborongh, Washington county,
in August, 1784, and after a long dis-cussion,
ia whioh the declaration of in-lependence
was read aud cited as a fit
example for them to follow, they de-
:larcd themselves independent of North
Cirolina. After a variety of foi'.nnes
tho little 8tate was organ'zed, and, iu
honor of Benjamin Franklin, was oilled
the State of Franklin.
The new State was short-lived, but so
long as it did exist it presented a very
singular spectacle. Lst us imagine to
ourselves a wilderness threaded here
and there by rivers, along which the
bottom lands, sparsely dotted by rude
log cabins, bora the only marks of cul-tivation
to be seen in the whole region.
No cities, no towns, not even villages
deserving tho name, and these shut iu
by lofty mountaiuH aud almost impene-trable
forests. There was scarcely a
wheeled vehicle in the S'ate. Farmers
ground or crnshel their own oorn, and
their wives and daughters united their
homespun clothes with the skins ol wild
beasts t» furnish them with clothiug.
If anything beyond what their own
farms produced were needed, there, was
but one way to procure it. GJM and
silver, money of any description, being
an almost unheard of article in the com-munity,
a system of barter ho i to be
brought into play. There were well nu -
deratood allowances to be made for each
article of commerce. A hcarskiu was
worth so many minkskins, oraioewrta
The Stato government established a
schedule ot values which it applied to
its own transactions, and probably the
waa satiufied of its being genuine. The
brick waa weighed, and the men adroitly
substituted a bottle of water for the
aoid tbat Friedberg had for testing gold.
He applied the ootenta of the bottle to
all parts of the brick, ana the water
having no effect, be concluded it was all
gold, and made the purchase, paying
12 800 for a brick made of an alloy of
bras, and copper, and worth about seven
cents a pound. The fraud was not i is
covered nntil long after they had been
gone. He starteo out on the hunt for
his deoeiving visitors, but failed, exc-pt
in securing tho arrest of John Hanson,
whom he identified as one of the party.
He, hovever, states that he acted .im-ply
as agent in referring two men whom
he did not know to Friedberg, whom he
knew to be alwa- s on the lookout for a
eood bargain. ^
Jew Method of Reading for the Blind.
At a Montreal lnatitntioii for teachinn
the blind a no* system is in successful
operation. It was devised by a French
gentleman, himself blind, and is super-seding
iu tto larper asylums tho old
method of raised type*, its great merit
lying in its simplicity and the ease with
which the characters can be combined
for all educational purposes. The sim-ple
(.) forms tho basis of the system.—
The number and position »f the dot,
in groups or combinations^ determine
the characters if the a'pbabet, the
Arabic numerals, nnd in musio, the dif-ferent
typos which arc neccrsary to read
•the ordinary musical notation.
Writing is done by an ingenious de-vice.
To a wooden frame ai>ont the
size of a common school slate is adjust-ed
a shei t of zinc w'th closely grooved
lines, on which the pipe; to be writton
on is fastened. A movable brass rule
about one and a-qnaner inches wide,
which is perforated with square holes
at proper intervals, is placed over the
paper, and through these perforations
the pupils pmetnre the dots with a
st} let or atvl The inie insures evenness
and uniformity of lino. Of course, the
writing is read from the reverse aide of
the paper. It id said that a child of av-eir.
ge intelligence can be taught by this
method the ordinary school eduction
in five years. In cur presence children
of eight and ten years read and wrote
witit at much rapi lity and accuracy as
those of the sime age in our public
lei ol .
Tried Once Too Ofteu.
During tti. ha}ing season an honest
old farmer out on the (Iratiot road em-ployed
tlnre yt ucg men from th« cily to
help cut and store his timothy. N< ue of
tbtci liked woik half as well aa whisky,
and conspiracy was ihe result. About
noon one day oue of the trio fell down
iu the he'd, shouting anil kicking, and
the other two ran to the farmer with
wild eyes ami eeUed out lhat their com
people of the Sta'o in their'privat- bus:- P»nion had been bitten by a rattlesnake
ness conformed to these rates. An idea "l"1 ma't lMXe "bieky. The farmer
of bow primitive the government reul'y
was nisy Lo inferred from the fact that
ita t fli :ers, from the governor down, re-ceived
their si lories in articles of corn-rti-
heit to the hi n e and bron^h' out a
quart, nu-1 thn three b uvest ra got a big
drink all nrcnad on the sly, while the
'n tti n one had a lay i ff of half a dry.
meroe, such us otterskins, beeswax, rje Tho Lext forenoon a i.cjud one was
whisky aud peach and apple bran ly.
North Carolina, after the first aban-donment
of ber offsptiog, suddenly
turned about and reasserted her juris-diction.
The Slate of Franklin was in-clined
to resent the appropriation, bnt
being weak was overcome, and thus the
near. State never was enrolled among the
United States.
Danger of Pencil-Writing.
A gentleman passing thrOOdh OhiddgO
recently wrote his mother in N^w York a
postal card.using a pcccil.an I signing his ! quart oi<>.
bitten, aud >.,.ii'. cue farmer tiishtd for
his bottle. It waa a nice little j b for
the boys, aud on the third day the third
one put in his claim for a bite and yelled
for the whisky bottle. The farmer took
tho raatt-r v<ry coolly this time, end
afftr making particular iuqu rics aa to
the size of the sn*f.e, location of the
bite, the sensition, an.l so forth, he
slowly oontiuut-'.l :
•Dty lief-ire yesterday James was bit-ten
an I drunk a quart of go-al whisky.
Yesterday John was bittea uud drank a
To-day y u'v.t pot a bite.
own, to give wholesome advice abont
the arrangement of one's hair, the loop-ing
of one's overskirt, the color of one's
ribbons, and of whose sincerity one may
be absolutely certain when she praises
beauty or behavior, however ahe may
err in judgment. Mothers and aunts do
not sympathize so intimately in the
pleasant follies and dreams of the
yo inger generation, perhaps; Lut a sif-ter
is always at hand to discuss oneV
lovers and prospects, to interest herself
and farther one's undertaking., to bear
witness to triumphs, and to console in
uvfeata; all of which may appear frivo-lons
to older minds, burdened with
realistic views of life, and who have,
p.rbaps, discovered that the colors of
youth are not faat. Divided pleasures
are twice enjoyed, aa griefs shared are
half assuaged. The only child, to be
sure, even in famil ea of merely average
means, possesses the roses and lilies of
life each as grow within the reaoh of her
parents; she wears finer clothes than the
children who have brothers and sisters
beside them; she enjoy.-, opportunities
which must be denied to them, and in
dnlgences they never dream of; bnt she
would often exchange them all for a
bister with whom she oeuld talk over
•thinge" after the lights aro nut, from
whom she could accept even a rebuke
with confidence in tho intentiou—a
second self in whom she could tie inter-ested,
whose affairs would take her out
of herself, whoso graces would be an
example. Bnt the world i'. uot all a
laud flowing with milk and honey, oven
to the only child. When parents fall
ill the burden and responsibility of the
sick room come upon ber; as she took
ber pleasure undivided, so she must
bear her sorrows and tlisoomforts alone;
and when poverty arrives, the only chiltl
must fight the wolf from tho door single-handed,
without aitl or oo-opcratioc from
any as doeply interested as herself iu
the conflict.—Jiazar,
Daring a remarkably heavy i
Cincinnati 1.46 inches of water fell in
twenty minutes.
Sixty five persons wire poisoned at
Searle, Ala., a few days since, by eating
ce cream that had boeu prepared ;n a
brass kettle.
By a railway accident at Frederick-ton,
Ohio, over twelve hundred bushels
of grain wero scattered in a swamp he-side
the track.
A Western paper nays of the loss of a
vessel: 'The captain swam aaln re, so
did the chambermaid; she was bxanred
fnrglfS.nOO, and loaded with iron.'
like a sister—unless it be a brother—to, By a new law abont te be carried into
tnppUnuaat one's good sense with her] l'D*co'ID Fhiladelplua the furniture of a
going on with your work more than
forty or fifty years longer, Miry Ann,
and don't yon forget it.
hang yon, it ia evident that all the
loose material wt aid bo swept out and
sent headlong downward to the bottom
of the hill. What a natural freshet
would accomplish by accident is pre-cisely
what the miners do by artifice.
They dig away ail day at tho loose
given name. A rogue in some way got pos- |
session of theeard, and, wiih rubber, en-tirely
effaced tho writing thereon, with
the exception of the signature. He then
ami tba best thing yon can do is to smell
their brea'hs an I lay in the aha le wlule
the re.t o: us ea* Jinneel"
The ma-: got *rel! in tor minutes, rind
A Incut Minded Lady.
The story is told of a Now Haven
lady who made preparations lot a short
journey. She had packed her trnnk
ami ordered a hack at the hour of twelve.
It was nearly that hour, wheu she had
occasion to leave the house for a mo
mint, closing tho door, which had a
spring lock. Scarcely had tho don
closed wlmu she r< m.-mbered the key
was on the inside, and she waa locked
cut. This condition of affairs, consider-ing
the arrival of the hackmnn, which
was momentarily expected, did not tend
to calm the lady's mind. She waa ex-cited.
She weut to the nearest aerpl n
ter and stated ber case, giving hit
orders to get into the house iu some
way. The oarpenter obeyed the sum
mons, but eonld devise no means but to
bn-ak the glass door. Tins was done,
bat no k.y fouo.l iu the door. The lady
then concluded that she ttsik the k--_»
out of the door and laid it npon tin
table. The vision of the sppros'-hing
hackmaa only made the lady more ex
cited, and she ordered a window broken.
This the faithful carpenter did, lint
upon entrtaae to the house eonld find
nosey. Tho affair finally concluded by
Ihe ls-ly examiniug l.er pooket and find-ing
the key safely hidden thero.
Canons Figures.
Professor L mi/ley, of the Allegheny
bservotory, to PInarrate the almost in -
credit de amonnt of energy involved in a
Rentle summer shower, oitea the follow-ing
case: Manhattan island co't-i'.-
twenty sqniio mile* on which the an-nual
rainfall is thirty inOneo. Oae in- h
of ra;n on one sqn.re mile weighs 01,-
636 tons, and the tot <l rainfall in this
btile island is 1.333.920 000 cubic fee', I wuo „.H,i atbet to di .troy pa
or 38 781,600 ton". This nmonLt of j «.n| operation1 M M2, i
water in the torsi of ice would form | t,lrc„ lldr|( p,.fur„ [} , v. , ,
thirteen iyranilds as Urge as the great r,,,,,.^_C„L„.| ,i .
i oxide gaa was also an ■ ff
pro luce a simiis r r»- nil, Slid I
j six tears be ore Ki.- James V
of EJinborgb, demonstrate I
tenant becomes liable to seizure for tax-es
unpaid by tho owner of the property.
The supply of quicksilver i I
demand, aud the prices have bill'n to
thirty-three cents a pound in H m Fran
Cisco, which is twenty por exnt.
than it was i rer known before.
Oar consul at Tangier report . •
saltan of Morocco has subdued the in
surreotion of tho Berber tril» I
four heads of rebels were ez|
the walls of tho oity to Inspire terroi
among other rebels.
The booansss which bavo been dan I-oped
iu the Bjsqk Hits up to the |
ent time lie iu a belt extending totoogh
hills and gnlches for a diatan -
two miles. Tbe belt is a vein which is
"About liH) feet in width bnt varies v-ry
■ranch,
The bouse of Jamos Baekinid on, ia
Mtlford, Conn., was struck by lightning
and was somewhat damaged. I
remarkable circumstance in oo
With it is that Mrs. Buckingham, who
has been deranged for several years,had
her reason completely rest ire ! by the
shrck.
There has recently been bras I I
rains of a vast pulaco at X IJ i,
ern Mexico, a ttiri u» ane i ■ ' aft
library. The writinga aro in crib*' I ou
terracotta tablets, Imlf an Inch I!
and are supposed to be sarr d reoo
bat the laugn-i'rc in u.
written ia not aeourately \< own.
A report from Deal':, islan
a ohild died there one day last wi -1.
front the eflects of mosq-oto bites. T
mother left it aali t p aa I on
found it literally covered a
sects. Itsdiath followed Imi
Smoke has to be kept abo
there to prevent horses and eattl
driven frantic.
A nori lly at the Berlin exhibit! n is
anelectrical railway with three oan
and oapable of carrying twentj
gers. The road is 330 ; and
trains run seven miles an ucur. D -
prez will have at the coming
exhibition at Paris a small train wt
by twclva Huusen cells, to be
able to work an aerial pi i| ellt r bj
alectrio motor.
Mr. Gladstone, speaking at U
ing of th- art i xbibil! :■ r,
said thet when Ameriee It
entirely to her o*n "p'ondi .
resources, the greatgeaioeo In
and their maivnlous proAoii ocy in the
adaptation of lab A
iu which sho waa at the hi* I u
world, she would be a formi
petitor with the English men ifs
Edwin Forrest, driven by '
phy, mode the last, st time I
ever made in the world by a ti liter I n
the three qu triers track oi M
farm, near Tarrytown. 'In Iii I |nar
ter was njado in 32y. the ' all
the three quarters in 1 i -:
mile in 2:11*. Three weti
on him; the fa'test made
2:111. and the slowest ia -^ 13
qneutlv the time sod rding
2:111.
Borne fishermen eeoght il
erel at MimiDgaab, Pi ut I I
i.lind, with a eod-book, T
paid /nit lire aut.l they were :.' Ii In
wtieh anchor, when the hof e
-P rti i for Ihi si nth at tbe ral
snteen miles an honr, with lb
tow. At the one: of thn e mill ' -
came ixhansltd, and the I •'
rnceeedod m toeing h in ashore.
tbih measured nim feet •
length, and hn girth was ix I
inches.
.Mr. P. II. Carpenter hi |nst
a nearly foil-length | rtrad
Crawford W. It Dg, U»e of Ailn 0
wrote over tho same iu substance that i cot another ra'ttesnakc was seen during
a gentleman by the uamecf J. R iger. 1 the seasou.—J-'r": Preu.
A Clergyman's Rebuke.
A clergyman was annoyed by people
talking and giggling. He paused, looked ; a-.; mat .»», ».. u., «. «.- c wa9Couuected wi
at the disturbers aud said: 'I am al-1 soil and easily disintegrated rock, break ^J,,^ A,,ti
ways afraid to reprove those who mis- j up tho larger fiagmcuts into smaller
behave, for this reason: Some years | pieces, and strew everything, good,
sine* as I was preaohing, a young man j bad and indifferent, in a carelets pile
who sat before me waa constantly laogh- on the floor of the cut. Then at tun-ing,
talking and making nnooath grim-aces.
I paused and administered a se-vere
rebuke. After the close of the
service a gentleman said to me, 'Sir,
you have made a great mistake; that
young man was an idiot.' Since then I
have always been afraid to reprove those
who misbehave in chapel, lest I should
repeat that mistake and reprove another
idiot.'
down they gather np their tools, climb
out of the diggings, and open the gates
of the reservoir. A torrent sweeps
through the mine, cleans out every
i loose roek and fragment of dust, and
I hurls it down into the mill where a
rack catches all tho coarre material
and lets the water drain through into
the much-tortured Yahoola. The whole
product of the day's excavation has
been deposited on the floor of the mill.
The lad who drops his hat over the La]f a mile aw8Ti tefuly to ^ 8i,OTeied
nnwary butterfly as it rests upon the uujcr ,i,e gtampp, which chew on it all
sweet clover, and then reaching his hand | njght) am, it has not co§t g p^y loI
had kindly lent him 821 to proceed on
his j .urney, aud requested that that
amount be immediately sent by money
order to that individual, who, it was
th a oertain rail-upon
this informa-
I tiou, the mother immediately procured
an order in favor of said Rogers. She
wrote her son, and in a few days received
a telegram from him to the effect tbat
his postal had been tampered with.
Upon being apprised of the fact the lady
immediately informed Postmaster James
of the case. A telegram was sent to tha
Chicago postmaster to stop payment of
the order, and if possible, to get posses-sion
of it. Oa Monday Mr. James, at
New York, received a letter inclosing
the order from the Chicago postt t!i v,
with tbe remark that 'the order was
presented ou the ft'.h inst., and, npon
stating to the party that instructions had
been received by telegram to refuse pay- .
ment, be left wilhont ceremony, and did I ■
not request the return of the order.'
Washington on Pretaalty.
Of General l\ash-Upton's dislike for
I profanity a picturesque story is related
; Iu the summer ol 17SI a Pian who was
, plowing iu o field neur o Fishkill road
! became very impatient with sonie d til
; calty in his work, and began to ponr
: fourth violent oaths. Just then three
j horsemen iu military undress, who were
j riding by, paused, end one of them
I asking for information concerning the
', road, thanked the plowman for bis an-swer,
and added: 'My friend, I am older
' than you,have many times been placed in
position of difficulty and danger, and
have had many thing, to perplex and
annoy me, bnt I have always found that
i it did no good to get angry; anil that
I neither broken plows nor anything el«e
' can be mended or made better by the
i use of profane language,' and with a
bow he rode on. It was General Wash-pyramid
of Ejrypt, and put in freiph;
cars won'o form a train rcc'iing more
than arout.il the world. This illustrate,
the almo.t incredible power of the sun
j and the immense value it would lie to
mankind if it could be harnessed and
controlled as a motive force a- steam lias
been.
roforni was as effective, Tbe |
to be placed ir. the sap I
The vital statistics i I the i
■ [ «how tbe following numb r i
He Was Mistaken. lotion raised in the Bonthem
An old fellow living ou tho west side during the years from 1670 lo 1H
of Nashville, and who hasa-ou jnit en- t apecm-ch . I 352,317, 3 971 311
tering jnveuile sce;ety, made a terrible 5111 (170888, 3 B3J
mistake the other night. A note was 14-.-, UJg | g|l 123
laid at his plate, which said: 'Miss ,'heads of sugar t III--1 12"
No. —, street, reqnesta your com
pany Tuesday evening.' He combed
his bald bead, and went there. A little
girl ushered him into the parlor. 'Ia
Miss in?" said he. 'Yea, that is
my name,' said the girl. 'Isn't Johnny
coming to-night?' Johnny waa bis son.
It all occurred to the old man in a mo-ment.
He tbonght Miss wss an
520. 89 4W IM867, 111,1b ,
127 753 212.0MI
886 OOo!000, IM
5 0 OOOOuO. 818 ■>'<« (*<0. 633 0 0
.>■):, 000.010. rjdfl.OOO.OOO, 572
Mitchell Jtfferson, a young fai
who hid been separated In 1.1 bis wifi.
v.aited her recently at Soottav'.Ue, V*.
His mother-in-law, in her cm:, it]
older sister. He wiped bis bald head, him_ per,uaJe,i her chinght, r
took his hat and said, 'No, Johnny has , mi of ,ho wtT_ „,, gaTe her p0180n t„
0 put in his coffee. She gave him the
drugged cap and left the room. II:
took a spoonful, bat not liking :
poured it back into the coffee pot A'ter
tell you he couldn't I..- here.' And the
old prjty went out and kicked himself.
H. Yanderbilt has just given
8 if.0.000 for a gymnasium and the ereo- , he had left the mother-in-law drank the
Wm. B. Michael, of Perrymansville, I lion of a civil engineering and scientifio coffee, waa taken sick and died.
cautiously under the hat to grasp his ,rarj5portation.
*'!"*.. B beei ngnaiiy loge* interest in Care not so muoh what your father I The money order will be repaid to the I Ml., died from the effects of oak poison j hall at the Vanderbilt University, Nash- son was exonerated from blame by th.
entomology for the time being. ' was, but what your son will be. ! lady who sent it. ' conimanicated six weeks previously. I ville, Tenth ooroner's jury,

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THE PATRIOT.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AI
GREENSBORO, N. C.
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■ ibe • Meat, and heit .Newpap*ri II
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■ D here in Ihe autumn,
•«l thy theavee,
. - tu gather
II and the leaven.
.:. so clojfcly
nay breast,
• kfl t!.. tender iiiu-.ling
I" i or ,11 IIMI?
BO pla.Tm.te
6M !hte;
towafa him -
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' angel wait,
k SVSS enfolding
>-d heavenly K»te,
on* who bfckonetb,
art, rouidet tbon bm see
gmtMBnfoUaBg
DM waiting tlieo.
I - tlie twilight,
'■'•:: ttonek behind,
■ nts |>-»t thtm iu.tL.DK
Ike ii 6 "Inter mud.
■ ' aby rautoa aud wfttchoth,
rath* night grows dim
-u empty cmdlo
..ng heart (or him.
New Series No.$95.
MY AUNT'S WILL.
np our miiulB -my sis-that
we would accept
' i tri mda uud join
I Noll Litd lull up-i.tairs
■ put tin- finishing tonehee to her toilet,
**iUa - tlj awaited bar.
i i rwerd tbere iaaetaab
"'. ovi rbi ad. I fly up, four
• •-, to Bod Nell lying on tho
th ihe HI os of a wardrobe,
h she baa somehow managed to, uii
■■'■ The wardrobe, ,8,u
I '■■ of universal sma^h that it is
i elear away the wrick aurl
Mms. She opens her
■ 1 lay ber upon her bod,and
Chat ia it* Has tho world
I -' | l] . 'hut what have
- a ma back to her.
If Dpi n bar right el-
• ■. Tba door atnek,
a lurry, and triad to jerk
be wl ole thing seemed
til waa BO frightened
■ led, and, I : a] pose, fainted.
i ". though, end there's
. rtui tatting.'
, iamy only reply.
>"■• Mi '• Mly tail ,i again;
■• drees in soiled and torn
" ol rostdi ition.
tti r ,'cr yonr di u : i I .t.torn
' I'Oat r* tO be bleki 11,' 1 eliy,
•; but \ : !. iki - I er head in
w together again*, out
ye, rni illy. "If
te and thoughtJ
. .ires,, Cyril It was
- i, an I c it ab-
I i time an 1 pains;
retty, ami beeom-ihed
:t precisely
, yon see; aud—
ttobca sight of
' Nell; and just
Is, and we realise
the picnic is over.
• • Nell,
horiz in.
• . ihon !b, f'. the
■ -i i in I:
: I !te.' for
■.-•:■■
1 I while Sell is
lireotioool
:.U"r of MI! of ii-. ■]. ,. .\rr.\
i whi D y eye falls :■■ ■ pan.
: a hicb some carefol hand
. ").u*i, lim M.
leadl' 1 exclaim; aud
Jate of the paficr,
'■ '< >
•!i a ,-t ,rt.
i rii -. 'An ! my let-
■ Blatchford, who lives
er.'
•.iti . i.o longer,
baal lv opeu.
■
might cxptct, coming
at lar-t. 'Sjy what
iii uulacky day.1
j if yonr lettercon-anppoae
it does,' I
atreteh aw.iy be-eyears
that it will
Utld np his prac
•M that it will take
; m I all tba
t! .• girl, of wle m X.-ll
; itiently in the
I Si »• England hills!
■my from sach thouulits
i listen to what Nell
would ha»e been nearer the right thing.'
Of Manet it u all left to eomeOicams,
to whom it will be bnt a drop in the
bnokot,' says Halt, bitterly. That', the
way things always go in this world
while we— Oh, Oyril, why don't yon
say something* Im't it too bad, and
(M ' this an unlucky day!'
'I suppose it is," I Bay, moodily. 'I
confess I cinnot see how we are to find
any good in this.'
We spend onr evening gloomily
enough, in spite of our efforts to ebeer
op and forget I read a little to Nell
from day old Etta, and we Iry a game
of oribbage, of which Nell soon tires.—
At nine o'clock we bid each other good-night
in sheer despair.
We are a little more cheerful over the
breakfast table. Things cannot look
quito so bad by the morning's light as
they did in the evening's shadows.
Bridget is bringing in the hot cakes
iu installment*, and as she sets the plate
containing the third batch upon the ta-ble,
wo notice that she is looking at us
curiously. Evidently she won Id fain
speak, but respeot restrains her tongue.
•What is it, Bridget?' Nell asks,
kindly.
Then the Irish tongue breaks bounds.
•Sure, miss,' she cries, 'an' haven't yez
heard ? An' wasn't it a blissid thing in-tirely
tbat }e tore yer drees an' cnJn't
go to this picnic—bad OFSS to it and it's
likel The milkman was just after tellin'
me all about it. Ivery wan o' thiml—
niver a wan saved—the purty dearsI—
Och, wirra, wirral'
Bridget is on the point of breaking
into a genuine Irish howl, but Nell's
words, quick and eager, nip it in the
bud: 'What do jon mean, Bridget?—
what havo you heard?'
Bridget's tale is not easy to under-stand,
diversified as it is by comments,
nnd embellished with interjections.—
By dint of painful and skillful question-ings,
however, we elicit the truth at
laM. That irnth concerns the picnic to
whioh but lor Nell's accident we should
have gone. This picnic was gotten up
by a small party of friends from oar own
town. Wo were to have gone by rail to
a spot live milee distant, there pick np
Dr. Oaston, and transfer ourselves to a
huge wagon which was to meet us. This
part of the programme seems to have
been carried out, in spite of-Nell'a and
my defection. The excursion came to
an abrupt cnnolusiou, however; for,
barely half a mile from the station, the
horses took fright, ran violently down a
steep hill, ami npset the wagon at the
bottom. Two of the occupants were
killed cntright, so Bridget reporta, but
who they were she canuot say. Of the
rest not one escaped without injuries
more or less severe.
I looked at Nell. Sho was white to the
lips, and her eyes looked big and wild.
'Another incident of your 'unlucky
day' which turus out the best of good
Inck,' I say, not having as yet taken in
the full sense of the catastrophe. 'Aren't
yon rather glad than otherwise now that
yon pnlle 1 down the wardrobe?'
'Cyril!' cries Nell, in a shrill voice,
which I hardly recognize as hers. 'How
can I bo glad ? Two were killed out-right,
and Miles Giston was there.'
Nell MMDI frozen to a Btatue. She
r.'arcely moves, tcarocly speaks. Only
her dry lips whisper: 'You will go and
Sod out, will you not, Cyril dear?'
O; course Iwill go; but just asl reach
the door I meet Dr. Oaston himself
rushing down the street from the station.
'You here? Thnnk God!' he cries.—
'B it Nell—is she hurt?' Is she'— He
paaaea, unable to articulate the last
word, hut I hasten to put him out of
his misery.
'Nell is here, all right. We didn't go
to the picnio. An accident prevented.
Bnt y m?'
'I uid uot go either, says Dr. Gaston.
'I won sailed out un< xpeotexily for a pro-
»»1 visit. It was a critical case,
and I ooold not loavo until too late for
the tram. I only hoard of the accident
the.- morning, ana came down at once."
It is good to see the rosy glow which
Ohaaea away Nell's pallor as I usher Dr.
Oaston into the dining-room. It ia good
to see the light of lovo anil gratitule
which shines from his o es as he sees
her. I leave them alone as I catch up
my hat and make my ucnal frantio rush
for the train, whioh again as usual I
barely succeed in catching.
Somehow I cannot work to-day. My
nerves are unstrung, my brain hangs
fire. 1 noughts of the accident, wonder
as to the real state of the case, fear as to
whioh of our friends may have suffered,
crowd my mind. A remembrance of
Anut Jaue's cruel will intrudes now and
then, bnt I pu'. it away. 'No use crying
over spilled milk,' no UBB in brooding
OH • what cannot be helped. Let the
innu, whoever he may be, ei>j >y Aunt
Jane's fortune. For ns, for all fonr of
us, it ia only a few years more of work-iugand
waiting, and then— Well,what
then? Success and happiness? Failure
and separation? Or a quiet grave in
A (.eorgla Marvel.
A lady of the seventh diatricltf Worth
conn'y has become insane on the sub-ject
of religion. Her dementation was
Brat noticed about a m-nth ago, soon
after the close of a protraoted meeting
at L'oion Baptist ehnrob, near her home.
mind. 'Got lid of jon?' I say. 'Who
has been putting notions into y«nr
head, ohild? What ahonld I do with-out
my little housekeeper?'
•That is juat what I have been think-ing,'
says Nell, ahyly. 'Just what I told
.Miles when he wanted—
'Well, what did Miles wanl?' I ask, | Sue atterded the different eervicw very
as Nell stops. '■ regularly, and seemed deeply impressed
•He wants," said Nell, hanging her aud troublod fox, their first oommenee-bead
low and speaking in a voice which j meet A short while before the meeting
ae and rambling conduct was noticed by
amaiement, 'M .rry him on his pr. sent' ber husband anl children, and they bj-mcome?
Do you meditate a diet of lo- j cime terribly excited aud wrought up
cnstB and wild bonej? Y..u will find j abtut it. She went raving about the
even those beyond your reach iu win- ■ honse ami yard with a bucket of water,
•WeTtW r-.^i • . u u r.i baptiaing everything iu ber pathway.—
•LDioonn'!t bee aann™gry „ bhuut,—'"it, was' Tto MViTles 8Le ^^heI hn"»nd «*» «* «•
O-un urd.r.. .It «~-k.. r ; Ml
riiurwrek*. fs ; ..Itiuiii.u j- ra'
U -..-in aaiaaet,
D—Msiatoi tm d-w.ieiu.il -
THE STATE Of KKANh I.I V
A Di.honest Man Tricked.
■aw ihe Onirder.u.n ef ataMi MtM»d ' k0"**' Friedberg, a pawnbroker of
Hants*- One Mere Slater. I some notoriety in Chicago, has been
It ia well known that after the Revo- ■ awindled into buying a brick which he
lntion most of the thirteen original' w" deceive:! into thinking was gold.
Statea claimed jnrisdiotion among them- ' He was visited at night by three men,
'elves over the territory stretching in. I who represented themselves as agents for
definitely lo the westward. The aepa- pickpockets, and proposed to sell him a
i»t» jurisdiction of each. State wag ill' '"Re amount of gold at a TfryJow price,
denned, snd to avoid all trouble, to ; Tu«T "id the gold was the produotof
give the general government what j w»lon «*&, chains, ornaments and
seemed iu due, and to assist in throw-! "the* articles which were stolen, and
mg off the debt incurred by the war of
independence, tho coiisrefB ol the con-federation
ref|ne*»exl the various States
whi.h they were afraid to dispose of
the atdinai y manner. A most magnifi-cent
story of the way in which these
ernmont. The matter was not definitely
nt one. Then
the comae of
had It avo it
.
she is saying, when
If ne never lowed
ii e sho new r J syme lonely churchyard before the race
is run and the goal reached? Bah I no
use in sitting in my office thinking such
dr.veling thoughts as these. Better to
go home, set my mind at ease, and take
the rest which my nerves demand. To-morrow
I shall come back all the fresher
to my daily task.
Nell meets me at the door of our house.
he flattered her
a !■ ii-ii oi "poetic justice,'
' I think the plain prosaic
. it to her relations
A Foreigner's Opinion of l"j.
Count Turenue, who spent two years
in this country, has recently published
in Paris a double-volume book giving
his impressions, in which be is appre-ciative
of onr women, whose personal
charms he considers superior to those of
any European nation, while their man-ners
are BO elegant and refined thatth-y
alone prevent onr harsh and angular
men from relapsing into bsrbarism. The
comte thinks that a great many other
wise sensible snd refined people display
a ratber ludicrous anxiety to trace their
origin back to ancient and illustrious
booses; but, indeed, he couceivea that
the mania for titles is common to all
classes of American society. The num-ber
of judges, generals, governors and
colonels to whom he was introduced was
aimply amazing. Society, however, in
the sense of those rapport; those sym-pathetic
commimic it ions that one has
with others, doeB not, iu the curate's
view cf the case, exist in this country,
except in very limited proportion*—
There is a small and secluded circle of
eminent minds, enlightened and culti-vated
in art and letters, but thes-j rnly
associate with themselves and admit
none from the outside. Besides ihese,
so far as he saw, so-called society is
confined to the nouvcauz Heknt whom
the comte characterizes acutely, saying
that 'America is full of men who have
succeeded marvelously and who are
themselves a failure; whose residences
are splendid, but whose souls are vul-gar,
who have pictures and cannot ap-preciate
them, books and do not read
them, clothes and bail fashions, clients
(cli*nl4» in the Roman sense! but no
society; flatterers, but no friends. They
have acquired fortuue by great i flort,
but they do not know how to enjoy it."
Hawk eye's Replies.
'Otrald'—You grievo that your pas-sions
are so strong do you? All right,
mix in a little of yonr morals, which are
weak euongb to thin them down.
•Little ButUrcvp' writes: 'Ho.-v con
I mend a crystal goblet tbat has got a
hole punched through its side?' Yon
can't repair it permanently, but if you
stick your thumb in the hole when you
are using the goblet, it wdl answer for
all practical purposes.
'Mary Ann' says she is 'a weary,' and
complains that 'woman's work goes on
forever.' So it does, and we are glad
of it. Bat that doesn't affect you. Bless
your sonl, yon don't go on forever: yon
don't have all tho work to do, not even
while you live. Man's work goes on
forever, too, we hope, bnt that doesn't
fret us a partiole. We aren't going to
stay hore and do it all. Bless you, no,
we aren't going to do oar own any
longer than we have to. Brace up,
Mary Ann, and don't you fret about the
work tbat'goes on forev-T.' You're not
of ber children, and while doing this
sang the mtiat beautiful songs—songs
that she had heard but onoe or tsrioe.
Although an unlettered woman (her
husband will swear this), she reads any
chopter in the Bible readily, pronounc-ing
cornctly and distinctly, paying at-tention
to punctuation points, etc. She
preaches nearly all the while, and, our
informant says, nses the choicest words
and displays great wisdom and knowl-edge
in tho handling of different sub-jects.
Although not a Mason, she knows
all the mysteries of that mysterious craft
by heart. Dtzeus of MasonB have gone
to see her, aud they all camo away
dumbfounded. Her husband has come-to
the conclusion that she is a witch.
She has attempted acts of violence, but
as yet has done no harm. He, with
outside assistance, at one time tried to
incarcerate her in one of the rooms ol
the house, but the doors became un-manageable
nnd wouldn't stay looked.
Sho hasn't slept in eighteen days and
nights, and during that time has taken
but few morsels of food. This is one of
the strangest eases wo have ever heard
of. Hundreds oro flocking lo see the
frenzied woman.
Proving American Machinery.
The late Thomas Blanchard's inven-tion
of a maohine for turning gunetoeks
was heartily ridicnled in the British
parliament when some members moved
a resolution for purchasing a number of
them, on the ground that Americans
were surpassing the English in gun
manufacture. Oue very incredulous
member made so much opposition, de-claring
that the very idea of taming a
gunstook was absurd, that the resolu-tion
was withdrawn and a committoe
appointed to como to this conntry aud
look into tho matter. They reported the
facts to b" as first stated, whereupon
the incredulous member declared that
the Americans might have got np
something to work their soft woods, but
it would never stand tho test of hard
wood. This gentleenan was finally sent
over to decide njmn the merits of the
iuaoliino. Selecting three rongh stocks
of tho hardest, toujhest timber he could
find, ho went to the Springfield armory
incognito, brought h s stocks to the
stocking-room, and inquired of tho over-seer
if ho would grant him the favor of
turning them. Without making tho least
alteration of the machine the overseer
ran the stocks through in a few minutes,
and then went ou with his work as
though nothing nuuanal had happened.
The Snglishmau examined the stocks,
and (ouud they were all turned the bet-ter
for being of hard wood. After musing
a while he frankly confessed who he was,
why hn came, and his thorough convio
tiou cf the utility of the machine. Be-fore
he left the city he gave an order in
behalf of tho British government foi
this aud tho ocximpanying machines,
some six or eight, which amounted t<
940,000. The machines were built at
Ohicopeo, shipped to England, an.
have been in nse there from that day to
th'3. _
Mining Gold In Georgia.
Havina got a tremendous 'head' of
water at their disposal by the comple-tion
of the ditch, stamp mills were built
far below in the valleys, at points suita-ble
to the best diggings, and they were
ready to begin operations upon the new
system. The cutting having been open-ed
at the brow of the hill, a reservoir is
constructed, in which the water from
the ditch :s allowed to acoutnulate to
the amount of thousands of gallon.,
whence a side ditch, controlled by flood -
gates, leads tit the upper edge of the
cutting. From the mine downward a
chancel is arranged, as precipitous as
possible, leading directly to the stamp-mill,
where a room is cpen to its en-trance,
if now a torrent should snd-d'-
uly be poured into the cutting,
away up tuero on tne edge of the
rronntain, which seems almost to over
to cede their claims to the general gov- K°ods were stolen followed, and when
the pawnbroker's eyes were nearly start-ing
from bis head they draw forth from
newspaper -wrappings, a large bright
Carolina attempted to cede, in compli-| ye"ow briek- Some little dickering en-acci
with the request of congress, its j ,ued M ,0 ,ue Price- uDl l,'e visitors
western lands, which now form the i offereu Bncb easy terms that Friedberg
State of Tennessee; and it was this at- JamP*d ■* tho bargain. He took the
tempt at cession whioh brought about b,iok "cd Mamiu«*1 » »» over, until he
the complications that shortly afterward
The Only Child.
If there are some things to the advan-tage
of the only child, there are others
equally to her uitad vantage. If she oan
monopoliz-- all the love of her relatives,
all their solicitude, and finally fall beir
to all tbeir boatd; yet she loses the
companionship of sisters and brothers,
the pleasure of sharing with them the
interchange of eonfldenc- «, the loLg
talks over the first ball or the first pro-posal,
consultations about Christmas
present*, little quarrels and great recon-ciliations.
If she has no elder sister to
tyrannize over her, she has no yonnger
one to send on her errands, to ail mire
and worship her. Who, in faot, ia there
ITEMS OF 6EXEBAL IMI HIM.
resulted in the brief existence of the
State of Franklin. North Carolina
ceded, but congress, vacillating and
vigorless, hesitated abont accepting the
cession. Having made the cession,
North Carolina gave up all interest in
lier border settiements, and congress
refused to accept tho charge which
North Carolina had thrown off. The
consequences were seriona for tho for-tunes
and happiuesa of the Tennessee
settlers. Their borders were over-run
with criminals and fogitives from jus-tice,
such as alwaya infest a pioneer
community, and yet the action of the
mother State left them without courts
'o assert ju.tioe and inflict punishment.
They had a* all times to be on their
cuard against marauding bands of In-dians,
and yet they were without a
regularly constituted militia for their
defense. They were, in fact, cast-ofls,
and did what one would naturally ex-pect
them to do un.lcr the circum-stances.
Tae three northeastern o iuu-lies
of the territory—Washington,
(Jteene and Sullivan—lying iu the
northern part of what is now Eastern
renncssie, then the only well-settled
portion of the State, met in convention
»t Joneaborongh, Washington county,
in August, 1784, and after a long dis-cussion,
ia whioh the declaration of in-lependence
was read aud cited as a fit
example for them to follow, they de-
:larcd themselves independent of North
Cirolina. After a variety of foi'.nnes
tho little 8tate was organ'zed, and, iu
honor of Benjamin Franklin, was oilled
the State of Franklin.
The new State was short-lived, but so
long as it did exist it presented a very
singular spectacle. Lst us imagine to
ourselves a wilderness threaded here
and there by rivers, along which the
bottom lands, sparsely dotted by rude
log cabins, bora the only marks of cul-tivation
to be seen in the whole region.
No cities, no towns, not even villages
deserving tho name, and these shut iu
by lofty mountaiuH aud almost impene-trable
forests. There was scarcely a
wheeled vehicle in the S'ate. Farmers
ground or crnshel their own oorn, and
their wives and daughters united their
homespun clothes with the skins ol wild
beasts t» furnish them with clothiug.
If anything beyond what their own
farms produced were needed, there, was
but one way to procure it. GJM and
silver, money of any description, being
an almost unheard of article in the com-munity,
a system of barter ho i to be
brought into play. There were well nu -
deratood allowances to be made for each
article of commerce. A hcarskiu was
worth so many minkskins, oraioewrta
The Stato government established a
schedule ot values which it applied to
its own transactions, and probably the
waa satiufied of its being genuine. The
brick waa weighed, and the men adroitly
substituted a bottle of water for the
aoid tbat Friedberg had for testing gold.
He applied the ootenta of the bottle to
all parts of the brick, ana the water
having no effect, be concluded it was all
gold, and made the purchase, paying
12 800 for a brick made of an alloy of
bras, and copper, and worth about seven
cents a pound. The fraud was not i is
covered nntil long after they had been
gone. He starteo out on the hunt for
his deoeiving visitors, but failed, exc-pt
in securing tho arrest of John Hanson,
whom he identified as one of the party.
He, hovever, states that he acted .im-ply
as agent in referring two men whom
he did not know to Friedberg, whom he
knew to be alwa- s on the lookout for a
eood bargain. ^
Jew Method of Reading for the Blind.
At a Montreal lnatitntioii for teachinn
the blind a no* system is in successful
operation. It was devised by a French
gentleman, himself blind, and is super-seding
iu tto larper asylums tho old
method of raised type*, its great merit
lying in its simplicity and the ease with
which the characters can be combined
for all educational purposes. The sim-ple
(.) forms tho basis of the system.—
The number and position »f the dot,
in groups or combinations^ determine
the characters if the a'pbabet, the
Arabic numerals, nnd in musio, the dif-ferent
typos which arc neccrsary to read
•the ordinary musical notation.
Writing is done by an ingenious de-vice.
To a wooden frame ai>ont the
size of a common school slate is adjust-ed
a shei t of zinc w'th closely grooved
lines, on which the pipe; to be writton
on is fastened. A movable brass rule
about one and a-qnaner inches wide,
which is perforated with square holes
at proper intervals, is placed over the
paper, and through these perforations
the pupils pmetnre the dots with a
st} let or atvl The inie insures evenness
and uniformity of lino. Of course, the
writing is read from the reverse aide of
the paper. It id said that a child of av-eir.
ge intelligence can be taught by this
method the ordinary school eduction
in five years. In cur presence children
of eight and ten years read and wrote
witit at much rapi lity and accuracy as
those of the sime age in our public
lei ol .
Tried Once Too Ofteu.
During tti. ha}ing season an honest
old farmer out on the (Iratiot road em-ployed
tlnre yt ucg men from th« cily to
help cut and store his timothy. N< ue of
tbtci liked woik half as well aa whisky,
and conspiracy was ihe result. About
noon one day oue of the trio fell down
iu the he'd, shouting anil kicking, and
the other two ran to the farmer with
wild eyes ami eeUed out lhat their com
people of the Sta'o in their'privat- bus:- P»nion had been bitten by a rattlesnake
ness conformed to these rates. An idea "l"1 ma't lMXe "bieky. The farmer
of bow primitive the government reul'y
was nisy Lo inferred from the fact that
ita t fli :ers, from the governor down, re-ceived
their si lories in articles of corn-rti-
heit to the hi n e and bron^h' out a
quart, nu-1 thn three b uvest ra got a big
drink all nrcnad on the sly, while the
'n tti n one had a lay i ff of half a dry.
meroe, such us otterskins, beeswax, rje Tho Lext forenoon a i.cjud one was
whisky aud peach and apple bran ly.
North Carolina, after the first aban-donment
of ber offsptiog, suddenly
turned about and reasserted her juris-diction.
The Slate of Franklin was in-clined
to resent the appropriation, bnt
being weak was overcome, and thus the
near. State never was enrolled among the
United States.
Danger of Pencil-Writing.
A gentleman passing thrOOdh OhiddgO
recently wrote his mother in N^w York a
postal card.using a pcccil.an I signing his ! quart oi<>.
bitten, aud >.,.ii'. cue farmer tiishtd for
his bottle. It waa a nice little j b for
the boys, aud on the third day the third
one put in his claim for a bite and yelled
for the whisky bottle. The farmer took
tho raatt-r v'■):, 000.010. rjdfl.OOO.OOO, 572
Mitchell Jtfferson, a young fai
who hid been separated In 1.1 bis wifi.
v.aited her recently at Soottav'.Ue, V*.
His mother-in-law, in her cm:, it]
older sister. He wiped bis bald head, him_ per,uaJe,i her chinght, r
took his hat and said, 'No, Johnny has , mi of ,ho wtT_ „,, gaTe her p0180n t„
0 put in his coffee. She gave him the
drugged cap and left the room. II:
took a spoonful, bat not liking :
poured it back into the coffee pot A'ter
tell you he couldn't I..- here.' And the
old prjty went out and kicked himself.
H. Yanderbilt has just given
8 if.0.000 for a gymnasium and the ereo- , he had left the mother-in-law drank the
Wm. B. Michael, of Perrymansville, I lion of a civil engineering and scientifio coffee, waa taken sick and died.
cautiously under the hat to grasp his ,rarj5portation.
*'!"*.. B beei ngnaiiy loge* interest in Care not so muoh what your father I The money order will be repaid to the I Ml., died from the effects of oak poison j hall at the Vanderbilt University, Nash- son was exonerated from blame by th.
entomology for the time being. ' was, but what your son will be. ! lady who sent it. ' conimanicated six weeks previously. I ville, Tenth ooroner's jury,